Not earlier than June 18, 1918

Immediately and freely allow passage of both the rafts placed by you for drying and all others that should go downstream on the Volga to the state and other sawmills. Take no taxes and levies of any kind whatsoever. Delay in this matter causes great harm to the Soviet Republic, for which you will be strictly answerable before the revolutionary court. Report immediately by telegram to the Council of People's Commissars on the execution.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars  
Lenin

*Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin. The phrase "Take no taxes and levies of any kind whatsoever" is written in his hand.*